Professor Graham has been a member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1973 and holds a joint appointment in NELC and the Study of Religion. He is currently serving also as Dean of Harvard Divinity School (2002- ). His scholarly specialization is in the early religious history of Islam, with special focus on the Qur'an and Hadith literatures. He is also interested in ritual, pilgrimage, and scripture studies, as well as the problem of tradition and traditionalism. He is the author of Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion (1986), and Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam (1977), co-author of The Heritage of World Civilizations (now in its sixth edition, 2003) and of Three Faiths, One God (2002) , co-editor of Islamfiche: Readings from Islamic Primary Sources, and the author of articles and reviews in both Islamic studies and the history of religion. He has taught reading courses in Classical Arabic, seminars in religion and Islamic studies, a Core course on Islamic civilization, and "Scriptures and Classics: A Thematic Introduction to the History of Religion"; however, his current decanal duties normally him only to teach one course each year at present.
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